TUNNEL VISION, GREED & STUPIDITY: REVIEWING CONCRETE POLITICS IN SYDNEY. March 1 - 25 2006

ARTISTS
Jeff Carter, Christopher Dean, Shaun Gladwell, Michael Gormly, Chris Henning, Marius Jastkowia, Deborah Kelly, Fiona MacDonald, Alan Moir , Jo Holder and Therese Sweeney, Anne Zahalka - Curator Jo Holder

CROSS CONVERSATIONS

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TUNNEL VISION
Is an exhibition documenting how politicians, businessmen and public servants secretly carved up the inner-city road network in a calculated bid to force drivers into a private toll tunnel. The exhibition is about the venality of selling off public roads, willfully restricting public transport, folly and lies and the howls of anger from gridlocked traffic. Laugh at funny pictures of people negotiating concrete bollards, watch footage of citizens trying to re-open roads at a Parliamentary Inquiry. Its a fast ride through public-private partnerships Sydney style.

BACKGROUND
In late 2002 a monopoly over inner-city roads was secretly handed to a private corporation. The Carr Labor government approved a contract based on rubbery figureswith over 72 street closures and modifications and over-priced tolls. Three years later, people finally had a clear picture of the full extent of the sell-off of public roads to a private monopoly and fought back. The contract fiasco flushed out grave concerns about the way toll road businesses operate and sparked a debate about the benefits of privatisation. The shift to a user-pay private toll network has profoundly changed Sydney. It has led to a new focus on public interest and planning.
 

Opening: Thursday 9 March at 6-8pm

Talks by: Paul Ashton, historian, University of Technology Sydney and Lee Rhiannon, Greens MLC, lobbyist for the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Cross City Tunnel

Read 'Cross City Tunnel' by Paul Ashton (PDF format)

For more information call 9357 2058 or 0406 537933

Sign the End the Tunnel Funnel Petition: http://www.drag.org.au/

View more works

Deborah Kelly: www.bewareofthegod.com
Marius Jastkowiak website: http://users.tpg.com.au/marz/countersign.html
Jeff Carter: www.sandrabyrongallery.com.au
 Books on Jeff Carter currently in print
Jeff Carter: Retrospective, New Holland Press, Sydney Australia

Deborah Kelly, Mr Car, 2005. Printed poster. Edition of 30.

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